No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.